John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Saying goodbye to a home

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If I remember nothing else, I’ll remember the rooms. I found it impossible this week to walk through the quiet, empty rooms of my Montana ho...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

My Writing Process blog tour

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Since taking up novel writing two years ago, I’ve been asked many times to weigh in on the writing process. More often than not, those doing...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The Journey at the 2014 IRDAs

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For the second consecutive year, I fell short of ultimate success in the Indie Reader Discovery Awards competition. IRDA judges selected Th...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Review: The Awakening

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If there is one thing I like about reading classics, it’s that they don’t go away. They remain in libraries, stores, and the minds of reader...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A day to remember

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Whether reading, writing, or viewing movies and TV programs, I never tire of exploring the past. I majored in history in college not because...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Explaining the NW Passage

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The questions almost always start with "why." "Why time travel?" "Why the Northwest?" "Why male protagoni...
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Number five goes live

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There is something liberating about ending a series. When you bring a story to an end, you can focus solely on the task at hand and not what...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Review: Isaac's Storm

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The thing I like most about researching possible settings for new novels is discovering works I might have otherwise ignored. Isaac's St...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The writing road at Milepost 2

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I remember the day like it was yesterday. I clicked a button on a web page in the morning, waited impatiently for several hours, and finally...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Next stop: 1964

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If there is one thing I enjoy most about writing historical fiction, it's that it allows me to build a story around actual historical ev...
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John A. Heldt
John A. Heldt is the author of twenty-six bestselling time-travel novels. The former reference librarian and award-winning sportswriter has loved getting subjects and verbs to agree since writing book reports in grade school. A graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Iowa, Heldt is an avid fisherman, sports fan, coin collector, and reader of thrillers and historical fiction. When not sending contemporary characters to the not-so-distant past, he weighs in on literature and life at johnheldt.blogspot.com.
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